Is A Time to Kill actually good?

A Time to Kill sits in the 59.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 59.8% of them.

How does A Time to Kill compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, A Time to Kill lands in the 58.4% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is A Time to Kill's score based on?

285 calibrated reviewers stand behind A Time to Kill's score.

1996

global pct

59.8

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

A Time to Kill

Name: A Time to Kill
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1996

Scored from 285 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

59.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

58.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

79.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

285 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In a small Mississippi town, a black father is put on trial for killing the two white men who brutally assaulted his young daughter. A young, idealistic white lawyer takes on his defense, facing down the Ku Klux Klan, a hostile community, and a tough prosecutor as the case escalates into a racially charged firestorm.

Released in 1996, A Time to Kill is a crime, drama and thriller film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. 285 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 290 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is A Time to Kill (1996) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 285
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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